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May 25, 2014 at 7:32 pm in reply to: No Duxford Naughty Field this year… #907212

SimonR
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So was anyone actually on the said field/mound today then ????

I was inside the airfield on Saturday and could see off in the distance that there was a police 4×4 on the bridge over to the naughty field, I assume turning people away and as others have said, the field was empty.

I was wondering if the statement was actually prompted by the farmer who was fed up with people trampling his crops so the IWM and police joined in – I wouldn’t blame him. It’ll be interesting to see if something similar is released when that’s just a stubble field later on this year.

Anyway my reason for posting this in the first place was to warn people who may have been making a special trip to the field, hopefully a few paid entry and Duxford is better off as a result…

May 25, 2014 at 10:51 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #907453

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Here are a few pics from a very wet Saturday – not ideal conditions for photos but some very nice sights and sounds nonetheless.

IMG_8057_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8100_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8042 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8086 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8134 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8163 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8167 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8176 by sboreeves, on Flickr

IMG_8205_tonemapped by sboreeves, on Flickr

May 4, 2014 at 7:04 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #926681

SimonR
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Spot The Odd One Out

Brian

That’s a great picture!

April 28, 2014 at 9:58 am in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #929066

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Early afternoon and the Hawk 75 went for a 35 minute test/handling flight to the north of Cambridgeshire…

Aha – so that’s what I saw at about 14:00 over the skies of Huntingdon. I got out of the car and heard a warbird engine and then spotted it doing a beautiful series of loops and rolls before heading back in the direction of Cambridge. My Mrs and I were the only people who appeared to have spotted it and we got some funny looks as we stood to watch! A most welcome first sighting of the year…

April 27, 2014 at 11:45 pm in reply to: Excellent Photos. #929113

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Do we have the freedom to crop etc as some of the photos are so dirty cropping can get rid of that but it may alter the size/dimensions of the photo.
[email]dibble.scooby@ntlworld.com[/email]

Hey there,

I would suggest that we keep the images whole and simply colour-balance / clean up etc. what’s there. Cropping can always be undertaken later on as required, but I’d suggest in that case we supply two cleaned up images, one whole and one cropped.

Just my opinion though!!

April 27, 2014 at 9:57 pm in reply to: Excellent Photos. #929159

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e mail maybe 10 photos each.That way it’s not too much for one person and they all get done in time.

See how many takers there are.

Good idea! I’m happy to help – my email address is sboreevesgmail.com. If you want to send me about 10 hi-res scans I’ll tidy them up and email them back, then you can upload them on your Flickr account.

What I’d suggest is perhaps to keep two sets alive on Flickr – one with all the originals and another with all the improved images. That way you can always compare the two versions in case there’s a discrepancy and you’ll also always have a copy of the original scan.

Cheers,

Simon.

April 26, 2014 at 11:46 pm in reply to: Excellent Photos. #929495

SimonR
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Great shots – many thanks to Scott for flagging them up and to Alan for making them available!

I had ten minutes so tidied one up:

April 23, 2014 at 2:11 pm in reply to: Missing Malaysian Airlines B777 #494577

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Breaking news from the Daily Mail:

“Pieces of wreckage from MH370 may have washed ashore in Western Australia, including one which is ‘length of a car with distinct rivets in it’

No need to look at the article on their website as that’s about the only new bit of ‘news’ in it. Sounds like the usual wild goose chase and idle speculation that has characterised this whole news story from the start, though!

I don’t read the news paper you understand – my chips happened to have been wrapped up in the page which contained this article 😉

EDIT: Oh, that’s better, it’s on the Beeb as well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27124532

April 23, 2014 at 9:43 am in reply to: How Low Can You Go? (2014) #930511

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A vintage one from Victoria Aircraft Maintenance LTD’s website, of Mosquito VR796 which possibly flew again for the first time yesterday after a long restoration:

Maybe not as low as some on here, but a Mosquito photo is always welcome!

March 29, 2014 at 10:15 am in reply to: Lufthansa A340-600 Hard landing #496129

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Simon – yes engineers can download the G loading data and send it off to Airbus for inspection. I can only speak for my aircraft because I don’t have knowledge of how Airbus do theirs but we have two gradings. If it was 2.0g or over then a grade 1 inspection is required before flight. If it was 2.5g or more then a grade 2 inspection is needed. A grade two requires a complete strip down and takes about 10 days so I am led to believe.

Many thanks Deano, very interesting answer!

March 27, 2014 at 12:47 pm in reply to: Lufthansa A340-600 Hard landing #496614

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Chaps, just out of interest, is there a procedure in place to check the aircraft after an incident like this? E.g. are there systems on the a/c that monitor hard landings and flag up some kind of inspection…?

March 22, 2014 at 9:38 pm in reply to: Duxford Diary 2014 #943640

SimonR
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And my take on the day’s event’s 😀

Brian

Great HDRs, Brian – especially that one. Many thanks for keeping us up to date 🙂

March 22, 2014 at 9:31 pm in reply to: Aircraft museum (with Spitfire) is haunted? #943644

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Well, don’t be too quick to discount it – I was a skeptic until I saw a video that Kermit Weeks posted of a WW1 ghost over at Fantasy of Flight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfDHxaRaIy4

You have to turn you speakers up though as it’s pretty quiet.

March 20, 2014 at 8:56 pm in reply to: Missing Malaysian Airlines B777 #498005

SimonR
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God – there’s enough childish bickering in the Burma Spitfires thread without it breaking out here!!

Indeed – I was really enjoying how this thread was going: lots of intelligent discussion and postulation which is in marked contrast with the official news agencies!

Let’s keep it civil chaps 🙂

March 15, 2014 at 11:07 am in reply to: Missing Malaysian Airlines B777 #499455

SimonR
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I was thinking about this because it’s one of the most perplexing aspects of it – however, what if the passengers didn’t know that there was anything wrong? People don’t txt/call from aircraft under normal circumstances anyway so if they don’t suspect anything they’ve no reason to.

The pilot (for example) could take the aircraft off-course, act as if there was nothing going on and the first thing the passengers would know was either (hopefully) when they landed in the wrong airport or when the aircraft was no longer in the air for any other reason. It’s a bit too late to txt then.
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